advice please

[Cecil H. Whitley]

Hi,
I am in the process of readying my home machine for skipjack (latest redhat beta).  It already has windows 98 loaded.  The drive currently looks like:
primary partition (c:) 3gb
unallocated space 25gb
extended partition (10gb)
logical drive (d:) 10gb

In the currently unallocated space I expect to place:
swap (256mb) **I have 256mb ram, do I need swap?**
/boot (100mb)
/ (512mb)
I will split the remainder between /usr and /home or I could join /usr and slash if appropriate, does /var need to be in the first 4096mb/1024 cyls?  

What pitfalls await?  How and where do I put lilo?  How do I choose between windows and linux when booting?  Do I always boot to windows and then lilo to linux?  Clarification would be greatly appreciated!  Oh yeah, and where in the initial config do I  change the settings to have it operate properly.  I have partition magic and so I can move the partitions if needed.  

Regards,
Cecil Whitley
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